So the day after the show at the Crest Theater, I drove over to San Rafael to see Robyn in a much smaller venue. New George’s was packed to the gills, so I was not able to get a great place to film. I sat on a chair side stage and did a handheld job. I have a 1st gen VHS copy of another stationary angle taken straight on that would edit nicely with this one, if anyone wants to give it a try.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Aiwa CV80 & Sony ECM909 mic
This was such an exciting show. Robyn was one of the biggest artists at the time to give me the OK to video. It turned out to be a great show, and the video turned out great as well. Robyn even name checks Dennis Yudt toward the end when someone is pounding on the side door at the Crest. Fun fact- Robyn’s rider required that he have a tuned piano on stage with him, something that Brian and Jerry had to make happen at no small expense… and then he never used it. Enjoy!
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
I was digitizing a tape for my friend Derek Purtell and this happened to be at the end. I don’t usually post tapes like this (4th gen! yikes) but the quality is decent enough.
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Man, what a late On This Date in History today. It’s a long story- I was going to do an anonymous recording, but then I decided to post his claimstake recording… then I was going to do a Wilco DAT board tape and that one tape # is not where it should be… then I was going to do George Norton’s Dag Nasty show from CBGB in 1988 and I see that a version is already on the Mackenzie Tapes.. jeez.
So here is a short one. Robyn Hitchcock at his peak (IMHO) playing some songs in studio at Live 105. From an unknown gen audio tape, it might be a little sped up.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
It’s time for our Patreon Voter’s Choice! As is usually the case, Patrons voted the tape that would be the best to share. This one came from a trade with Chuck Erb many years ago, and he got it from the guy who filmed it. Looks decent, sounds good.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
TLDR version: Tape was damaged, gets better at 5-7min mark.
Collections post first today, and the On This Date is going to be late!
This one comes from my collection. I found this on Ebay years ago- I saw someone selling it and knew exactly what it was. The 9:30 club had a (somewhat legendary) semi professional video system with a Umatic camera and soundboard audio. A bunch of VHS copies hit trading circles back in the 80s of bands like Embrace, Government issue, etc.. so when this came up on Ebay, I wasn’t going to get outbid. Haha.
Then I went to play it on the other umatic machine I had and it would not play- the tape seemed completely damaged and victim of sticky shed syndrome (look it up), so I shelved it. Then, my friend Mark at FET Electronics fixed my good umatic machine and here it is. Would you look at that. Beautiful.
I need to contact the person who has the rest of these.
Recorded by: The 9:30 club
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony BVU-800 – Datavideo TBC1000 – Tevion USB Adapter
Light Denoise in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Man, kinda slim pickings for today’s On This Date in History. Usually when I check a certain date on the audio list, there are about 30 things to choose from and something always jumps out at me to post. Not this time.
After digitizing this one, I am glad I picked it. It was a little muddy and guitars were distant, but I was able to EQ it and make it sounds pretty nice. The taper used a Nak Cm300- I had a set of them in the 90s and loved them. Robyn’s vocals could come up a bit, but otherwise nice. And it was 40 years exactly to the day!
Check out that concert listing. This show (w/Scruffy the Cat opening) for $7.50. Johnny Cash (Pre-Rick Rubin career resurgence) and a bunch of other cool shows at the casino.
Robyn Hitchcock and REM fans should subscribe to the blog or youtube channel. I have something REAL cool to post next weekend!
Recorded by: Dunno
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
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